Apple introduced iCloud Drive in iOS 8 and . It’s designed to be a more easily understandable cloud storage location, working more like Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive.
Previous versions of iCloud could sync your “documents and data,” but iCloud Drive now exposes a sort of file system to you. You can sync any file you like and browse your saved files.
How to Enable iCloud Drive
When you set up iOS 8 on an iPhone or iPad, or when you set up a Mac with OS X Yosemite, you’ll be asked whether you want to migrate your account to iCloud Drive. This is a one-way upgrade from the old “” system. After you convert your account to iCloud Drive storage, iOS 7 and pre-Yosemite Mac OS X systems won’t be able to access your files.
If you didn’t enable iCloud Drive during installation, you can do it later. On an iOS device, open the Settings app, select iCloud, and turn on iCloud Drive. To enable iCloud Photo Library, you’ll also need to enable the Photos option here.
On a Mac, open the iCloud Preferences window and enable it. On a Windows PC, open the iCloud for Windows application and enable it.
How iCloud Drive is Different
Previously, Apple’s iCloud “Documents & Data” system was designed to hide the file system from
you as much as possible. You’d use TextEdit on a Mac to save a text file to iCloud Drive, and that text file could only be seen from within the TextEdit app itself. On iOS, there was no TextEdit app, so you couldn’t see it. There was no location where you could go to see all your stuff.
This changes with iCloud Drive, as Apple has apparently realized that there’s no substitute for an exposed file system that lets you see all your stuff. iCloud Drive is still a bit weird, though. By default, every iCloud Drive-enabled app you use will save its own files to its own folder. Apple is trying to organize your drive for you. However, you’re free to place files anywhere you like and make your own folder structure.
As with other cloud storage services, files you store in your iCloud Drive are automatically stored on Apple’s servers and synchronized via your devices. They’re tied to your Apple ID, and Apple offers 5 GB of storage space for free.
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How to Access Your iCloud Drive Files
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Your iCloud drive files can be accessed from an iOS device, Mac, Windows PC, or any device with a web browser. Here’s how:
iOS 8+: On an iOS device, there’s no single app that exposes the entire iCloud Drive file system like there is for Dropbox and other similar apps. Instead, you need to use an app that uses iCloud Drive, open its file chooser, and access your file system in that way. For example, you can open Pages or another iWork app and use the app’s document browser to browse for files stored in iCloud Drive. iCloud Drives plugs straight into .
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite+: On a Mac, iCloud Drive is available directly in the Finder’s sidebar. Click iCloud Drive and, by default, you’ll see your documents organized into folders depending on which app they’re from. However, you’re free to dump any file you like in here and make all the folders you like. They’ll be synced via iCloud.
Windows: Windows computers need
4.0 or newer installed. After this software is installed, iCloud Drive will appear as an option in the File Explorer or Windows Explorer file-browser windows. Click it under Favorites to access your iCloud files in the same way.
Web Browser: Your iCloud files can also be accessed from the iCloud website anywhere you have a web browser. To do this, visit the
and sign in with your Apple ID.
How to Access Your iCloud Photo Library Photos
With iOS 8 comes a new feature called iCloud Photo Library. It stores an unlimited amount of photos, if you have the space, and makes them available everywhere. This is a big improvement over .
However, in spite of the related name, iCloud Photo Library is not part of iCloud Drive. This is why you can’t see your photos in iCloud Drive on a Mac or PC, even though they’re synced. You’ll have to access your photos in a different way.
iOS 8+: You can see your synced photos by opening the Photos app on any iOS device. They’ll appear there.
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite+: To see your photos on a Mac, you’ll need to install Apple’s iPhoto app from the Mac App Store. Launch iPhoto, enable the iCloud integration, and select the iCloud option under Shared.
Windows: On Windows, you can enable the Photos feature in the iCloud settings panel and get copies of photos you take downloaded directly to your Windows PC. iCloud Photos will appear under Favorites in File Explorer or Windows Explorer, just as iCloud Drive does.
Web: You can also view your photo library on the web. Visit
and log in with your Apple ID.
As long as you have devices running the latest versions of Apple’s operating systems, there’s no reason not to enable iCloud Drive. However, you may still prefer another cloud storage solution. iCloud storage space is still fairly pricy, with Apple only offering
— and, remember, that 5 GB .
Other storage providers offer a more generous amount of storage for less money, with the most enticing being Microsoft’s offer of
plus free access to Microsoft Office applications for $8 a month with .
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但是就几张照片.几秒同步一张照片..呵呵 我也是同样的问题..哎真心伤不起啊..touch啊 如果设置照片流也登陆了.我的pc端倒是能同步.不想ipad啊...
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出门在外也不愁Apple iCloud Photo Library exits beta: What is it, and how does it work? - Pocket-lint
Apple iCloud Photo Library exits beta: What is it, and how does it work?
8 April 2015
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Apple's iCloud Photo Library service has exited beta, enabling you to browse a photo collections
and any device running OS X Yosemite or iOS 8.
The service is meant to make it easier to share photos and videos, among many other things. Apple first made the beta version of iCloud Photo Library available to everyone months ago via an update to iOS 8, but now that the new Photos app for Mac has also released, the full version of iCloud Photo Library is finally ready to use.
If you're confused about how iCloud Photo Library works, which includes how photos and videos are stored, synced, and managed across all your devices, Pocket-lint has explained everything you need to know below.
What is iCloud Photo Library?
iCloud Photo Library is an iCloud-based service that automatically saves all your photos and videos to iCloud. It also allows you to access and download all your photos and videos from any iOS device or iCloud Drive on the web, and those photos and videos will be in their original format and resolution.
"iCloud Photo Library helps you make the most of the space available on your iOS device by automatically storing the original high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and leaving behind the lightweight version that are perfectly sized for each device," Apple has explained on its website.
But that's not all: iCloud Photo Library syncs any changes/edits across all your devices, so you can edit a photo on your iPhone, then switch over to an iPad, and see the changes applied to that photo from the iPad. The same goes for video.
The idea is that iCloud Photo Library will free up storage space on your iOS device, because your photos and videos are saved in the cloud rather than locally on a device, and the service will further streamline how you access and manage your photos and videos from multiple devices.
The service, for instance, organises photos and videos into Moments, Collections, and Years across all your devices. You can also mark favourites, create albums, or drag content into a custom order - no matter which device you're using.
When will iCloud Photo Library officially exit beta?
On 8 April 2015, Apple rolled out iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3 to iOS devices and Macs, respectively, and their release officially signaled that iCloud Photo Library was no longer in beta.
Only some people could initially enable iCloud Photo Library on their iOS devices when Apple released iOS 8 in September. The company allowed a random and select group of people to enable and use iCloud Photo Library, because the service did not fully launch when iOS 8
it debuted as iCloud Photo Library Beta.
The company stressed that iCloud Photo Library was a beta service for developers to test and would remain that way well after its initial launch. But Apple didn't even make iCloud Photo Library Beta available to everyone until iOS 8.1. That update released last October, along with support for the service in OS X Yosemite.
Such support meant - as long as iCloud Photo Library was enabled on your iOS device - you could drag-and-drop photos and videos into the iCloud Drive folder on your Mac. At the time, Apple also said a new Photos app for Mac would release in early 2015 and work with iCloud Photo Library. The company kept its promise and released that app on 8 April.
The Photos app for Mac brings new controls for viewing, syncing, and managing photos and videos in your iCloud Photo Library while using a Mac. You can learn more about the new app .
How much will iCloud Photo Library cost?
Apple's iCloud Photo Library automatically saves your photos in iCloud (after the service is enabled, of course). Unfortunately, you must have available storage space in iCloud, and Apple only doles out 5GB for free.
If you have more than 5GB of photos on your iOS device, but still want to use iCloud Photo Library, you will must buy an iCloud storage plan. You can subscribe to a plan through your iPhone or iPad by launching the Settings app, then tapping iCloud, and selecting Storage. From there, go to Change Storage Plan.
Choose the sto just make sure to tap Buy in the upper right-hand corner and then sign in with your iCloud account to complete the purchase. You can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time.
Subscription plans range from free all the way up to $19.99 a month for 1TB of storage:
5GB of storage - Free
20GB of storage - $0.99 per month
200GB of storage - $3.99 per month
500GB of storage - $9.99 per month
1TB of storage - $19.99 per month
Your iCloud storage plan works for iCloud Drive as well, so you won't need to buy an additional plan for that service.
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How do you enable iCloud Photo Library?
You can enable iCloud Photo Library by tapping Settings, then going to Photos & Camera, and toggling on the option for iCloud Photo Library. After you enable iCloud Photo Library, your photos and videos will be automatically stored in iCloud but won't be duplicated in your iCloud backup.
Your photos and videos also won't begin to upload until after you connect to the internet using Wi-Fi. You can see the status of the upload and can even pause upload for one day under the Photos section of Settings.
Remember that iCloud Photo Library is new and, presumably, still being developed and tested by Apple. You may want to have an extra backup of your data before blindly trusting a new iCloud-based service.
How does iCloud Photo Library save space?
If you want to have iCloud Photo Library start saving space on your device, you must turn on Optimise [device] Storage in Settings. It will automatically manage the size of your library on your iOS device by storing the original, high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and keeping optimized versions on each of your devices.
As long as you have enough storage, recent photos and videos that you access the most will stay on your device at full resolution. To turn on Optimize [device] Storage on your device, go to Settings, then iCloud, and Photos or Settings. From there, go to Photos & Camera and select Optimize [device] Storage.
How does the Photos app work with iCloud Photo Library?
Those of you who first started using iCloud Photo Library in October likely noticed your Camera Roll and Photo Stream went missing from the Photos app on your iOS device. Apple nixed those features when it released iOS 8 last autumn, though due to public demand, it brought back some Camera Roll functionality via the iOS 8.1 update.
Review the information below to ensure you know the differences between Camera Roll and Photo Stream.
Prior to iOS 8: Camera Roll & Photo Strem
Way back when, before iOS 8, the Camera Roll (in the Photos app) sat on your iOS device and held all the photos and videos stored locally on your device (i.e., photos and videos you captured with your device, as well as photos and videos you saved to your device from text messages, emails, iCloud Drive on the websites, etc).
Every time you took a photo or video on your iPhone, it saved to your Camera Roll and was visible only on your iPhone (unless you enabled Photo Stream). Your Photo Stream was in the cloud, had to be enabled manually, and synced with all your iOS devices. Photo Stream was the initial groundwork for iCloud Photo Library.
It kept a rolling collection of your photos (no videos) in the Photos app, let you share across devices, and didn't count against cloud storage. Your Photo Stream would only store up to 1,000 images for up to 30 days. So, when enabled, you could snap a photo with an iPhone and then see it in your Photo Stream album on an iPad.
If you wanted to use another device - like an iPad - to permanently save that same photo, you needed to select the image in Photo Stream, then find the Save or Add To options, and choose one. In addition, if you deleted a photo from Photo Stream, it automatically erased the photo from all devices connected to your iCloud account.
Deleting a photo from Photo Stream didn't affect the original copy stored in Camera Roll, though, and deleting a photo from Camera Roll did not remove any copy you might have had in Photo Stream.
Today: Photos app in iOS 8
As we mentioned earlier, those of you who first started using iCloud Photo Library when it launched likely noticed your Camera Roll and Photo Stream were missing from the Photos app on your iOS device. You instead saw new tabs on the bottom of the app called Photos, Shared, and Albums.
The Photos tab is for all of your photos and videos ever captured on or saved to your device, and they're organised into years, collections, and moments, The Shared tab lets you share albums or individual photos/videos with any of your contacts or even family members designated under Family Sharing in Settings.
And finally, the Albums tab has folders for self-created albums, default albums, and something called Recently Added. Recently Added is a combination of both Camera Roll and Photo Stream in that it saves all your local photos and videos for a limited amount of time and syncs them across devices.
Photos and videos will eventually disappear from the Recently Added, but a copy will always be bumped to the new All Photos tab of the Photos app. The All Photos tab replaces the Camera Roll and My Photo Stream and gives you the same compact scroll view, with all your photos organised by the date they were added.
When Apple replaced the Camera Roll and My Photo Stream with All Photos, it introduced a Recently Deleted folder. Any photos and videos deleted from Recently Added go into Recently Deleted. Such a setup prevents you from accidentally deleting local photos. It’s like having a Recycle Bin - only you have 30 days before it's permanently purged.
Just remember the Photos app separates photos and videos based on how they were added to your device and their type. It also organises them by date under the All Photos tab. As for your default albums - for things like panos, videos, deleted photos - they appear automatically under the Albums tab and cannot be removed.
In other words, to view all your photos and videos, you must visit the Photos tab or the Albums tab in Photos.
Other iCloud Photo Library features
iCloud Photo Sharing
Both iCloud Photo Library and iOS 8 includes a feature called iCloud Photo Sharing. It lets you create a shared album and invite select friends to view that album as well as make comments and even add their own shots. You can invite up to 100 people by selecting a contact. To add a photo or video to the album, tap iCloud Photo Sharing via Share options.
Activity View
Another iCloud Photo Library and iOS 8 feature is Activity View. It lets you view updates - such as the latest photos, videos, and comments - to your shared albums, in real time. Other tools include the ability to manage subscribers, contributors, notification settings, and invites. On the Mac, you can use the Photos app to access the Activity View.
Want to know more?
Check out Apple's
for more details about iCloud Photo Library. You can also visit
about Camera Roll for more information.把iphone里照片删除了,Icloud已经同步到电脑上的照片流是否也跟着删除？_百度知道
把iphone里照片删除了,Icloud已经同步到电脑上的照片流是否也跟着删除？
用充电器连接电源是否可以，那么电脑上的照片是否也跟着删除：连接电脑1？2.用Icloud已经把照片同步到电脑上了、有wifi：苹果、锁屏?(是不是随便哪台电脑都可以.手机照片用Icloud同步到Icloud照片流，手机要开启照片流,iPhone问题类型，那么这个连接电源是否一定要用usb连接电脑我的手机、连接电源，现在把手机里的照片删除
提问者采纳
iCloud上的照片是只增不减的不需要连接电脑。只需要开启照片流并连接wifi就可以开始同步了;步，不然是不会发生这种情况的，除非你在“照片流”中也删掉同样的照片，除了主动进“照片流”删照片以外; & &nbsp。也就是说; &nbsp。你可以等锁屏的时候自动同&nbsp不会
iCloud中的5GB空间，我看了下已用4GB,现在只有987MB，但是我不知道都备份了我什么东西，怎么查看？电脑上今天装了iCloud控制面板，怎么把存在iCloud空间的4GB下载下来？所谓同步，是我从电脑上安装了iCloud控制面板的时候开始吗？以前的是不会同步到我电脑的是吗？
在设置里的“iCloud”和通用里的“用量”都能看到，默认情况下iCloud会把所有照片以及软件的文档（游戏存档）都同步到云端。至于iCloud控制面板，因为我的电脑还是XP系统，安装不了（要求至少要为Vista)，所以帮不了你。但有一点可以确定的是，在你的iPhone上第一次打开iCloud时就已经开始同步，所以不用担心看不到以前的照片。
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解决方法一
还是使用itunes，选择你把照片同步进iphone设备的路径。
将此文件夹的照片都另建文件夹转移到别处。
选择同步。此时就将你之前的照片在手机上删除了。
解决方法二
当然此问题还有第二种解决办法，选用任一好用的手机同步管理软件，在这里我随便用某某助手来示范。打开某某助手。
连接你的手机后你就可以看到如图的内...
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　　【中关村在线资讯】10月17日消息：苹果在今天凌晨召开了今年第二次新品发布会，部分最早在WWDC2014中提到却没有实装的功能也再次搬了出来，比如云相册iCloud&Photo&Library，该服务将在iOS8.1中测试。　　iCloud&Photo&Library允许用户将照片存储在iCloud中，并可以在多个苹果设备之间进行同步甚至在线编辑。该服务最初将免费提供5GB的存储空间，并支持付费扩容。iCloud&Photo&Library　　根据苹果公示的价格表，20GB需要每月支付0.99美元，而200GB的价格为每月3.99美元，似乎并不是很贵。最后该服务支持最大扩容到1TB。　　另外还有一条，在iOS8中一直被吐槽的消失的“相机交卷”可能要回来了，苹果称“我们确实收到了一些反馈”，所以在iOS8.1中将会带回更多的功能。
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